Monday, May 02, 2005

Wosog went to visit her friend Julie two days ago with another friend, Karen. As you can imagine, the conversation ranged far and wide, but one topic was a woman who Karen knew that played a rather nasty trick on an unsuspecting ex-boyfriend. We'll call the couple Jack and Jill.

The two had been together for a long time, but it was apparent that, although Jack was very fond of Jill, the real love of his life was his fancy motor car on which he lavished far more attention than he did on his girlfriend. After some time, the two drifted apart and it became clear that their relationship didn't have a future. Jill knew that they were about to split up, but she was bitter, and wanted revenge not only on Jack, but on the mechanical monster that had usurped her.

While Jack was at work, Jill took a plastic TicTac container that still had two mints in it, and carefully taped it inside the glove compartment of Jack's Pride and Joy. In the fullness of time the couple finally split up, but Jill continued observation of her ex-boyfriend through mutual acquaintances. It seemed that the poor man had started to notice an irritating "rattle" emanating from his beloved car that defied the analytic powers of a veritable army of expensive mechanics. Several hundred pounds down the road, Jack finally parted company with the car, and bought something more practical, and Japanese. He was never quite the same again....